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I really want to see that movie now, you made me really anxious.
Disneys A Christmas Carol train tour, New Orleans location - mini TR!
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lovebuzzandwoody
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Awesome Cheri! I'm so glad you are writing a mini-TR for this! Looking forward to more! 
Sorry for the delay folks. I was waiting on something, which I have just received today! 
This post begins with the 2nd train car:
We walked in to see a room full of HD Flat panels, some still pictures, but most of them were moving through different scenes (like digital photo frames would)…it was not easy to get good pictures of these but I sure tried my best!
some other display cases were also in this room
This is my FAVORITE picture of them all. I couldn’t BELIEVE I got this shot!
Here I edited it, gave it a little haze around the sides (smudge tool) and I have it as my background on my work computer!
Now the next car had different models of people and things. It was really neat to see!
I walk in and have these guys staring at me:
Here is Nathan posing with Big Ben:
(continued in a separate post)
This post begins with the 2nd train car:
We walked in to see a room full of HD Flat panels, some still pictures, but most of them were moving through different scenes (like digital photo frames would)…it was not easy to get good pictures of these but I sure tried my best!
some other display cases were also in this room
This is my FAVORITE picture of them all. I couldn’t BELIEVE I got this shot!
Here I edited it, gave it a little haze around the sides (smudge tool) and I have it as my background on my work computer!
Now the next car had different models of people and things. It was really neat to see!
I walk in and have these guys staring at me:
Here is Nathan posing with Big Ben:
(continued in a separate post)
Big Ben again:
And then I tried to get a better picture further back but there just wasnt much room on the train to do so.
And then Nathan wanted to pose with EVERYTHING. LOL
Model of Freds House:
Scrooges office (and Nathan, of course. LOL)
Sorry some of these came out so dark.
I just thought this was awesome so I wanted to get a close-up inside the office
more little models
Then we enter this other room where they show how different graphics are done.
Pump up the volume!
It is really neat how they put little dots all over the actors faces and thats how they come up with the digital characters from this. I think this movie is going to be AMAZING!
There were mirrors on the other side, so in this picture coming up you can see the little girl that got soaked by all that water before we got on the train (& her mom to the right of her). I really did feel bad for her.
This next room was just too cool. There were a ton of screens practically surrounding us. They actually showed the digital effects in the making (the next step in the process after the room we were JUST in)
Some screens were a little more advanced along in the process such as this one
I wanted to capture a picture of the whole room so I did that on the way out
I apologize, Im not sure what this is. Hehe
(again, will be continued in next post)
And then I tried to get a better picture further back but there just wasnt much room on the train to do so.
And then Nathan wanted to pose with EVERYTHING. LOL
Model of Freds House:
Scrooges office (and Nathan, of course. LOL)
Sorry some of these came out so dark.
I just thought this was awesome so I wanted to get a close-up inside the office
more little models
Then we enter this other room where they show how different graphics are done.
Pump up the volume!
It is really neat how they put little dots all over the actors faces and thats how they come up with the digital characters from this. I think this movie is going to be AMAZING!
There were mirrors on the other side, so in this picture coming up you can see the little girl that got soaked by all that water before we got on the train (& her mom to the right of her). I really did feel bad for her.
This next room was just too cool. There were a ton of screens practically surrounding us. They actually showed the digital effects in the making (the next step in the process after the room we were JUST in)
Some screens were a little more advanced along in the process such as this one
I wanted to capture a picture of the whole room so I did that on the way out
I apologize, Im not sure what this is. Hehe
(again, will be continued in next post)
The next car was very technologically savvy.
Here we utilized ANOTHER HD flat panel, this time it was a touch screen. We answered questions from the movie (most of which I didn’t know the answer to, shame on me)
Sorry, no pictures of this. Actually the last picture on the previous post may have been from this, but it doesn’t look it to me.
Moving on…
Here’s the coolest part!! We got to use another touch screen to morph our faces into the characters from the movie!!
Here are my cousin and Nathan in action:
This was NOT easy with such a short kid. LOL She actually had to let him stand on her knee, and then I straightened his head to where it needed to be for the camera to take the picture. We got it after a couple of tries. He looked cute as Tiny Tim, so we picked that one for him. Saved it, and moved on.
They must have had 20 booths set up to do this and the way it was set up, no one could bump into you in the “hall”, so that was nice. And they didn’t rush you either! It was SO wonderfully “DISNEY”.
Then Christina and I also had our turns. She was Bella, and I was Tiny Tim—I didn’t look so good as Bella…(We were able to click on each and view ourselves as each character before choosing which one we wanted sent)
Okay, I must say, this was a LIE. Total LIE. I know it’s free and all, but don’t lead people on. We kept waiting and waiting for the email. Then I even tried entering the code into the website given to us, and it kept telling me it wasn’t available. I was SO worried that we would not receive our pics! It’s not like we’d ever have a chance to do it again. Well, Walmart emailed me back a day later, and said that they’d re-generate/resend the email with our pictures. Finally after several days, yesterday my cousin received the pictures. Unfortunately Nathan’s is not there, and neither is her Bella. Instead, there is one of her as Tiny Tim, and FOUR, count ‘em FOUR pictures of me! Somehow it sent me as all four characters! Bonus for me, but poor Nathan didn’t get his keepsake of himself as Tiny Tim.
I’d advise anyone doing this tour to take pictures of the screen with your camera while your “morphing” is on screen. Then you’ll have back-up in case you don’t receive your pictures, or receive the WRONG pictures.
Without further adieu….
Christina as Tiny Tim:
Me as Bella:
TOLD YOU it looked funny! Haha
Me as the ghost of Christmas past ( I think?)
Me as Scrooge
And finally, my favorite….Me as Tiny Tim!
I love how they made my eyes so large and thinned my lips.
Nearing the end of the train now.
The last car had a fake fireplace, and also a nice set-up of a “family dinner” for photo opportunities. I was hoping I’d get those pictures from my cousin before posting this, but she never sent them to me (they are on her phone as well). If I get them within the next week, I’ll post here.
We left the train with HUGE SMILES. Because it was fun, and well…the rain had stopped!!
photo ops
Me with Nathan
We were sad not to be able to see the movie, but we sure had a nice fun FREE morning.
We asked Nathan if he wanted to go have some pizza for lunch and he said Sure! We headed to Chuck E Cheese as planned! K-Mart is right next door so we stopped there and I found some cute flip-flops for $6 on clearance. I just could NOT wear those water-soaked shoes and socks anymore.
Of course as we were entering K-Mart, Nathan said “look we can have pizza at Chuck E Cheese!” and Christina said with a straight face “no, we’re going to Pizza Hut” LOL Poor kid.
One more good thing that happened was when we walked into K-Mart, an Olan Mills rep was in the front of the store with a great offer. I won’t go into the details of the package unless someone asks but it was a $14 deal for a ton of pics (including some black and whites)—all of one pose, but still a good deal. Christina signed up to have a family portrait, and I signed up so that DH and I could take pictures…$14, why not? We are going next Friday on our day off at 12:30. I have a hair appointment at 9:30 so it will be nice and fresh! Let’s just hope for no rain!! It’s been raining so much lately.
We got in the car, and drove right next door at Chuck E’s….and said “Nathan, we’re here! This was the plan all along!” He flipped, he was so excited!!
We both had tokens from last time we had been there (a birthday party) – we ended up having over 125 between us! Then I had some coupons from signing up online, $18.99 for a large 1 or 2 topping pizza, plus 4 drinks, and 25 tokens. Also there was a bonus coupon for an extra 20 tokens, JUST for using any of the other coupons on the sheet. Can’t beat that!
We would have spent that on lunch just for the 3 of us had we gone elsewhere. So it was a great deal! And I realized I really like Chuck E Cheese’s pizza.
So, nearly 200 tokens in hand, we set out on our CEC adventure!
Did you know ALL the games are only ONE token each? Even this:
That’s a rollercoaster simulator. There’s another that is even cooler. I just couldn’t believe it was only one token (ie. 25 cents…but for us much cheaper. LOL)
That’s the only picture I took there because my phone battery was getting low.
We played a lot of games, and waited and WAITED for our pizza to arrive. Finally it got there and we were in heaven. Afterwards we played more games for a couple of hours. We used the ticket counter and ended up with over 500 tickets.
The moral to the story? Even in this economy, you CAN have a day of fun AND eat lunch for under $20.00
Oh by the way, I recommend anyone with children go to Chuck E Cheese’s website and sign up on their email list. You will get GREAT coupons—especially upon initial sign-up (so don’t sign up until you think you’ll be going within the next 30 days). That’s why we ended up with so many tokens left over from the last time; I had signed up and they sent me the $18.99 deal like the one we used this day, as well as some others, in particular--a “buy 40 tokens, get 60 tokens free”. (And we used both that time.) You will only get that particular one when you sign up. (That’s $10 for 100 tokens!)
Here’s one final picture:
Think he was tired??
I know this was not ALL about A Christmas Carol, but like I mentioned, there are several of my "disfriends" reading this, and I thought I'd share some personal moments. Also I hope that the information I gave can benefit someone else! The end!
Here we utilized ANOTHER HD flat panel, this time it was a touch screen. We answered questions from the movie (most of which I didn’t know the answer to, shame on me)
Sorry, no pictures of this. Actually the last picture on the previous post may have been from this, but it doesn’t look it to me.
Moving on…
Here’s the coolest part!! We got to use another touch screen to morph our faces into the characters from the movie!!
Here are my cousin and Nathan in action:
This was NOT easy with such a short kid. LOL She actually had to let him stand on her knee, and then I straightened his head to where it needed to be for the camera to take the picture. We got it after a couple of tries. He looked cute as Tiny Tim, so we picked that one for him. Saved it, and moved on.
They must have had 20 booths set up to do this and the way it was set up, no one could bump into you in the “hall”, so that was nice. And they didn’t rush you either! It was SO wonderfully “DISNEY”.
Then Christina and I also had our turns. She was Bella, and I was Tiny Tim—I didn’t look so good as Bella…(We were able to click on each and view ourselves as each character before choosing which one we wanted sent)
Okay, I must say, this was a LIE. Total LIE. I know it’s free and all, but don’t lead people on. We kept waiting and waiting for the email. Then I even tried entering the code into the website given to us, and it kept telling me it wasn’t available. I was SO worried that we would not receive our pics! It’s not like we’d ever have a chance to do it again. Well, Walmart emailed me back a day later, and said that they’d re-generate/resend the email with our pictures. Finally after several days, yesterday my cousin received the pictures. Unfortunately Nathan’s is not there, and neither is her Bella. Instead, there is one of her as Tiny Tim, and FOUR, count ‘em FOUR pictures of me! Somehow it sent me as all four characters! Bonus for me, but poor Nathan didn’t get his keepsake of himself as Tiny Tim.
I’d advise anyone doing this tour to take pictures of the screen with your camera while your “morphing” is on screen. Then you’ll have back-up in case you don’t receive your pictures, or receive the WRONG pictures.
Without further adieu….
Christina as Tiny Tim:
Me as Bella:
TOLD YOU it looked funny! Haha
Me as the ghost of Christmas past ( I think?)
Me as Scrooge
And finally, my favorite….Me as Tiny Tim!
I love how they made my eyes so large and thinned my lips.
Nearing the end of the train now.
The last car had a fake fireplace, and also a nice set-up of a “family dinner” for photo opportunities. I was hoping I’d get those pictures from my cousin before posting this, but she never sent them to me (they are on her phone as well). If I get them within the next week, I’ll post here.
We left the train with HUGE SMILES. Because it was fun, and well…the rain had stopped!!
photo ops
Me with Nathan
We were sad not to be able to see the movie, but we sure had a nice fun FREE morning.
We asked Nathan if he wanted to go have some pizza for lunch and he said Sure! We headed to Chuck E Cheese as planned! K-Mart is right next door so we stopped there and I found some cute flip-flops for $6 on clearance. I just could NOT wear those water-soaked shoes and socks anymore.
Of course as we were entering K-Mart, Nathan said “look we can have pizza at Chuck E Cheese!” and Christina said with a straight face “no, we’re going to Pizza Hut” LOL Poor kid.
One more good thing that happened was when we walked into K-Mart, an Olan Mills rep was in the front of the store with a great offer. I won’t go into the details of the package unless someone asks but it was a $14 deal for a ton of pics (including some black and whites)—all of one pose, but still a good deal. Christina signed up to have a family portrait, and I signed up so that DH and I could take pictures…$14, why not? We are going next Friday on our day off at 12:30. I have a hair appointment at 9:30 so it will be nice and fresh! Let’s just hope for no rain!! It’s been raining so much lately.
We got in the car, and drove right next door at Chuck E’s….and said “Nathan, we’re here! This was the plan all along!” He flipped, he was so excited!!
We both had tokens from last time we had been there (a birthday party) – we ended up having over 125 between us! Then I had some coupons from signing up online, $18.99 for a large 1 or 2 topping pizza, plus 4 drinks, and 25 tokens. Also there was a bonus coupon for an extra 20 tokens, JUST for using any of the other coupons on the sheet. Can’t beat that!
We would have spent that on lunch just for the 3 of us had we gone elsewhere. So it was a great deal! And I realized I really like Chuck E Cheese’s pizza.
So, nearly 200 tokens in hand, we set out on our CEC adventure!
Did you know ALL the games are only ONE token each? Even this:
That’s a rollercoaster simulator. There’s another that is even cooler. I just couldn’t believe it was only one token (ie. 25 cents…but for us much cheaper. LOL)
That’s the only picture I took there because my phone battery was getting low.
We played a lot of games, and waited and WAITED for our pizza to arrive. Finally it got there and we were in heaven. Afterwards we played more games for a couple of hours. We used the ticket counter and ended up with over 500 tickets.
The moral to the story? Even in this economy, you CAN have a day of fun AND eat lunch for under $20.00
Oh by the way, I recommend anyone with children go to Chuck E Cheese’s website and sign up on their email list. You will get GREAT coupons—especially upon initial sign-up (so don’t sign up until you think you’ll be going within the next 30 days). That’s why we ended up with so many tokens left over from the last time; I had signed up and they sent me the $18.99 deal like the one we used this day, as well as some others, in particular--a “buy 40 tokens, get 60 tokens free”. (And we used both that time.) You will only get that particular one when you sign up. (That’s $10 for 100 tokens!)
Here’s one final picture:
Think he was tired??
I know this was not ALL about A Christmas Carol, but like I mentioned, there are several of my "disfriends" reading this, and I thought I'd share some personal moments. Also I hope that the information I gave can benefit someone else! The end!
Trentmom
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Thanks for sharing that Cheri
Your pictures were so awesome
You took great shots of those varous scenes of the movie
The morphing thing looked like so much. What a shame Nathan did not get one. But I am sure he still had a blast
I love that roller coaster simulator thing at Chuck E Cheese.. so awesome
I am so excited to see this movie now
Your pictures were so awesome
You took great shots of those varous scenes of the movie
The morphing thing looked like so much. What a shame Nathan did not get one. But I am sure he still had a blast
I love that roller coaster simulator thing at Chuck E Cheese.. so awesome
I am so excited to see this movie now
Thanks for sharing that Cheri
Your pictures were so awesome
You took great shots of those varous scenes of the movie
The morphing thing looked like so much. What a shame Nathan did not get one. But I am sure he still had a blast
I love that roller coaster simulator thing at Chuck E Cheese.. so awesome
I am so excited to see this movie now
so glad you enjoyed it!
hey where is everyone??
Trentmom
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so glad you enjoyed it!
hey where is everyone??
Not sure. Probably enjoying the last of summer or getting kids ready to back to school
Marshay
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thanks for posting! I'm really glad I was able to see your pictures. I was considering doing this with DD4 when they come to Union Station in DC...but after seeing what it really is, there is no way my 4yo would be all that interested in it...and I certainly wouldn't be able to enjoy it with her all bored.
But now I feel like I know a little more about the movie and train.
But now I feel like I know a little more about the movie and train.
lovebuzzandwoody
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Great job Cheri! Your pictures were amazing! I can't wait to see the movie!
I'm glad you had fun at CEC. Personally, I'd rather poke myself in the eye than go there ~ but I'm glad you like it!
Your pictures were amazing! I can't wait to see the movie! I'm glad you had fun at CEC. Personally, I'd rather poke myself in the eye than go there ~ but I'm glad you like it!
mnmrmustard
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Great report Cheri - it looked like a lot of fun despite the rain. Glad they didn't shut it down until after you were in line. Amazing stuff inside and cool that there was so much you could interact with.
And nice psych out on the kids about Chuck E Cheese ...we parents do love to play those games on our kids
We have Kyra convinced that she is not getting an iPod Touch for her b-day on Friday ...which we've had in hand along with a good accessory pack for a couple of weeks now 
Thanks for posting this, it was fun living the experience through your eyes
And nice psych out on the kids about Chuck E Cheese ...we parents do love to play those games on our kids
We have Kyra convinced that she is not getting an iPod Touch for her b-day on Friday ...which we've had in hand along with a good accessory pack for a couple of weeks now Thanks for posting this, it was fun living the experience through your eyes
OrangeBlossom15
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Man Cheri! Believe it or not we were all set to go on Saturday and decided not to because of the rain and reports that it was really more for the over ten age group. Now I am wishing we would have went! At the very least, we could have had a meet!
Pics were great. Ya'll whipped poor Nathan out The lighthouse picture is absolutely gorgeous.
I can't wait to see the movie!
Pics were great. Ya'll whipped poor Nathan out
The lighthouse picture is absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait to see the movie!
I'm glad you got to see them too
She'd love to watch the 3D movie preview I bet. And she'd probably be intrigued by all the "tv's" in there. Then she'd get to morph her face into the characters! I know you would enjoy it, maybe give it a go? You can move rather quickly through the train. We actually took our time a bit in some areas and people passed us up.
Loved the final installment! Thanks for sharing this with us Cheri. I'm glad you had so much fun! And it sounds like you really scored at CEC!! WTG girl! You always have the mad hook up with the deals.
you're welcome! LOL I do don't I?
Great job Cheri!
thanks, glad you liked it!
I'm glad you had fun at CEC. Personally, I'd rather poke myself in the eye than go there ~ but I'm glad you like it!
It was a fluke, it was my first time trying!
Great report Cheri - it looked like a lot of fun despite the rain. Glad they didn't shut it down until after you were in line. Amazing stuff inside and cool that there was so much you could interact with.
And nice psych out on the kids about Chuck E Cheese ...we parents do love to play those games on our kids
Thanks for posting this, it was fun living the experience through your eyes
Thanks! aww, she's going to be SO SO excited!! What a good dad you are!!
you are welcome, I enjoyed sharing it.
Man Cheri! Believe it or not we were all set to go on Saturday and decided not to because of the rain and reports that it was really more for the over ten age group. Now I am wishing we would have went! At the very least, we could have had a meet!
Pics were great. Ya'll whipped poor Nathan out
I can't wait to see the movie!
oh man! what a bummer! It was really wet out there, but we were glad we went. And I was thankful for my K-mart flip flops!! They are cute, too
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